Kathy Acker

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1947-04-18

Deathday 1997-11-30 (50 years old)

Kathy Acker

Biography

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.

Known For

Actor

2016
Traceroute

as Self (archive footage)

1992
Seeing Is Believing

as Kathy Acker

1991
IDn4

as Kathy Acker

1991
The Golden Boat

as Professor

1984
Kathy Acker

as Herself

1972
The Blue Tapes

as Herself

Director

1974
The Blue Tapes

as Director

1974
Blue Tape (Tape 2)

as Director

1972
The Blue Tapes

as Director

Writer

1985
Variety

as Screenplay

Crew

1985
Variety

as Script